Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 48

PAGE TEN Ai Che Casper Dai ilp Crihune SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1925 INEW BUILDINGS RELIEVE CROWDED SCHOOL CONDITIONS it HIREE A'S ARE WELL TAUGHT Standard Tests Made Yi : Yt Here Show Pupils Above Average. 1 From ge One) Ohio Number Three, ber One, Lavoye Num- field transportation ided. Where tran provided buildi§ pupil is at not where p on the tions 80 community the 1 has not felt jus z school funds to is. In a8 settled the school tremendous! »mpleted In new ed in puptis cared for Natrona County Hich School As usual the t eg itself crowded to t a Uttle beyond B brick whict ere building has rtabl 1 Scho inds mit and even order to take In care of all the classes, the day has to be extended at both ends so that iwe start work by artificial ight and lose under the same conditions Fivery day one hundred seventy-five classes are accommodated in the high school buildings, and this does not include the twelve gymnasium class and the classes for band and or- chestra. In spite of the crowded conditions, the work of the high school has been raaintained at a very high standard, and aside from the 2® slight inconvenience of rising early Sand putting in long hours, the stu- Oidents suffer no handicap in their he work. yer The regular class room work needs en no comment; ft fs recognized by the erthigher inetitutions of learning as w among the best, and our schoo! fs on . athe accredited Mst of every college exand university which accredits any D high school. h Debating to the Front es. The extra ourricular activities, le which make for the development of ed the individua! fully as much as the he Class room work, are beginning to thr be utilized here to a considerable de. ool sree. With a weak start two years ‘a #0 tn interscholastic debating, this e, Your we have a tremendous Interest iin this activity. Although we won all our tnterscholastic debates that first year, it was difficult to get stud- necents te enter for the teams. Now, ae We have eight teams in the field ig who will defend the debating inter ests of N.C. H. 8. against the other schools of the state, and there are {nat least a dozen "second team” de- ye daters eagerly waiting for thelr chance to take part should misfor- ‘he tune overtake any of the regulars. = Newspaper Published he Another extra curricular activity ho Which has greatly increased the tn- xterest of the whole student body in ea. their school, t= the newspaper which mais published every two weeks and “ggtagerly read by every one from the smallest freshman to the oldest mem- ber of the faculty. Articles, contrib- »,uted by the students and ¢urrent ‘hE yews of the achool make up the 4 main items of the paper and it ts leNcurprising how much this means to ¥ ‘the individual students. Also, a redereat deal of newspaper talent ts he- Uheing developed tn the editors, repor- Drters and business managers. s{ Another activity which has done Wl much to increase the loyalty of the beindividual students for the school, the Spanish Club, This ts com- 1 of students who are studying iis language {n the school and only ose who are eligible whose dally J olstandings average ninety percent or inrbetter, This club meets regularly ge ond programs are presented in Span- .ctfish, and the ability of every member a to use the Iangunge fs greatly factl- letitated since the whole evening {= en 1 4 Spanish ely et Adviser for Girls not the benefit’ of the girls of the 8 high school, a girl's adviser ts em ed, She puts in her whole time Iping solve the problems of the floor structure are a theater, music High excellence of the Casper schools will be raised anoth Handsome New Or el and band rooms, gyr um notch with the completion of the $75,000 structure pictured above, which !s now building. library and laboratories arranged with a view to the highest possible efficiency. girls, and a splendid spirit 1s grow- ing among them in consequence of this arrangement. A girl's council from the senior class advises with the lady in charge and standards of conduct for the students are deter mined and enforced by the students themselves. Besides this council, there is an athletic council made up of two representatives from each of the classes in school. This body de- termines the athletic policy of the school and supervises the financtal end of the athletic season. This year, a complete revision of the courses of study in the high school is under way. The course of study has always been kept up to date, but for two or three years, a printed course of study has not been {ssued. Especially in the English department has there been a careful revision and efforts to arttculate more completely with the English work done by the students in the elghth grade. Primary Department That the Casper schools are pro- gressive ts evidenced by the fact that there are kindergartens in eight of the ten grade schools in the city. The usual length of the kindergar- ten term {s one year. Hence child- ren may enter the kindergarten at five years of age and be ready for the first grade at six, The kindergarten rooms are ‘large, airy and well equipped with modern kindergarten ~material—a piano, small musical instryments for a kin- dergarten band,” Patty Hill blocks (large sized building blocks) a work bench with small sized carpenter's tools, toy household utensils to fos- ter the play motive, picture books and matertals for sewing, painting, clay modeling and paper construc- ay he subject matter of the kinder. garten fs the experience of the child and centers about the thingy he {s most interested In—home life, the tn- dustrial world of whicn he fs a social unit and the world of nature, The casual observer of a kinder. garten session might remark “How well those children play together," but he does not realize that day af- ter day the teacher has been setting up good standards of behavior, not by force but by creating within the child the desire te do the right thing under all circumstances. The year in the kindergarten {!s 2 | splendid introduction to school life and we feel that more can be ac: complished in the first grade and better standards oan be attained if e child has had kindergarten train asunds of the letters the application of tks 18 atempted and hetore the year, we have independent rot @#. We learn to read by reading so during the first grade e ton and sometimes ir and Urst readers ary read. It is perfectly nacural for c! to count, but thera are no formal number lessons until the latter part of the first grade, although num | bers are brought fn Incidentally 1: many places during the first part of | the yeur. | All of the language work In tho| first grade 1s oral, As the alm in tnis work 1s to gut the child to <x- press himself well, and knowing that to talk well, we must have some thing tnteresting to talk about. We group the history work, including | Indian and eskimo Ife, nature stud hygiene and good citizenship under | this head, Whenever possible the art correlates with the regular schoo! | work thereby bringing the work to| the child along as many avenues of | approach as possible. The second grade work cont! along the same Mens as the firs The good habits of reading started in the first grade are continued, but year after year the technique {is sup. posed to improve as well as the com | prehension and the rate of increase. | While some spelling is given in the) first grade, formal spelling {s not tn troduced until the second year. The third grade work {s suppo: to surpass the second grade, as the second surpassed the first. Know- ing the standards required for ea grade, the teacher has a goal to wards which to work | Recently some spelling and arith metio tests were sent out to the sev eral schools from the office, ‘The results were very satisfactory and | showed that the teachers are con- sclentiously doing the work as out- ined. In December a Mor stan: | dardized reading test was given to| are learn vin new worda 1 of} the third-A pupils, the ts of | which w most gratifying. All patrons and friends of the school should be pleased to know that the/ Casper median exceeded the Monroe median by 27 point Writing, « always be n ing. Time taught by |then th | was when reading first learning the | words and then the s the ¢ Telephone 1928 ut’ A Casper $1,000 in 96 Months, Also serving the thrifty O. L. Walker, Pres, Provident Building and Loan Association Serving the Home Owner Monthly Payments Required to Pay Loan of safety with large interest profits on deposits, TEN DOLLARS a month for 96 months will net you $2,000.00 at maturity, Room 16, Daly Building A, J, Cunningham, Treas, Institution The typewrt place of good ng hand writing. | The great burden of school work fs | carried on by writing. Spelling, | English, tests itten lessons fn NH subjects call for writin, We! m to produce good, rapid, Igtble penmen who can go out into the] business world and meet th ot busines To do this we start fr | first grade grade blackboard writing. | Here the pupils use the large mus which they have learned to use GEBO COAL $16.25 Per Month insuring a high degree of O, W, Tobin, Secy, BEECH AND Phones 948 and 949 \ the |what study 4 | without Crating and Packing Moving Vans, Drays, Light Wagons Moving, Baggage, Storage NATRONA Transfer, Storage and Fuel Company J. L. BIEDERMANN, Pres. GENERAL OFFICES AND YARDS— in play. the seat The alm of the penmanship depart- meht is to have pupils apply myscu- lar movement in all daily written les- ons, such as spelling, English, test Puptis as a rule ke penman- ship and to encourage and keep them interested they are carefully graded so that their Interest {s maintained. They are also awarded buttons, bac and diplomas as they ad vance Later they are started at Art Holds Place Acceptance of art as an integral part of the general educational scheme has carried this study for- rd in Casper schools as in other progressive schools of the country. Tt is no longer considered a fad or a frill, Consifer for a moment the visual ressions received by the average idual in the courses of the day. Unless we be blind we, constantly use our eyes for observing and in- stinctively judging, assimilating, comparing, measuring, enjoying, re- fecting and recording impressions. Te we ask what basis we have for risons and judgments lace In the aleert mind; evelops and trains the observation to enable {t to distin- guish clearly between good and bad taste, the answer js undoubtedly art education, The Introduction of art courses {n- to the schols some forty years ago was the result of a demand on the mercial forces that were never more part of social, industrial, and com- insistant than they are at the pres- ent time. Supervisors and teachers re no longer called upon to prop- agate and defend art education, for) today it is an established fact that | there can be no complete education | Music Department | “Music—the common property of the high placed and the lowly, the consolation !n sorrows, the {nspira- tion In achlevement, the voles of the soul." Musto in the public schools of Cas- per is steadily advancing, the pro essive method fs bringing splen- did results, Children are learning to read music with @ keener under: | standing nd § One udded fea ture has been the use of an advanced | text in eighth grade, In this we have the use and practice reading in bass and tenor in bass clef, The interest among boys has been much more alert, | As last year, the memory contest will be in May. Thirty-five com- positions other than those studied last year are being studied. The children are learning to recognize the composition by {ts theme, to now the composer of each compost. tion and to spell correctly all names | of composers and to tell the nation. ality of each. Trucks, Heavy and AND COKE C STREETS Casper, Wyoming High School Building as It Will Look When Completed Modern features being incorporated in this three and four- In addition to the memory contest it is planned to have « sight reading contest. Preliminary contests will be given.ip each building to choose the best students for a team from each grade. A final contest be- tween teams will be held at the high school about the same time as the memory contest. Prizes will be awarded as last year. Jefferson, Grant and Willard schools will present operetas during the second semester. The musio department ef the high school has continued along the same Mines as last year with added interest in music appreciation, history, and harmony, The advanced classes are asking that an added year be given to this study. Seven quartettes are working with interest and preparing to take part in a concert to be given February 20. The boys’ glee club fs unusually good, and is doing excellent work. The enrollment will be enlarged next semester. The girls’ glee club num- bers one hundred and has a large waiting lst. All students meet once a week for assembly singing. Be- cause of the lack of seating space It Is necessary to divide into two groups. Junfor_and Senior orchest: re doing excellent work, showing as they continue to study, better work in phrasing, shading, and attacks. Physical Education The aims of our physical educa- tlon department are: promotion and conservation of physical vigor, and the development of fine qualities of citizenship, including initiative, lead- ership, loyalty, tair play, courtsey, and self control. To get the proper results from our department of physical education the grade schools have a fifteen minute period of physical training each day and a recess of organized play, together with a posture parade. Seasonable games are played by both boys and girls. At the present time 980 boys and girls are using the old high school gymnasium for basketball, Tn the high school we have a cadet battalion of 280 boys with their own officers most of whom have been to the citizens training camps. A forty-five minute period ts allowed each day for physical education of freshmen and sophomore boys and girls. Here we are working out the newer ideas in physical education Puptis are classified into squads ac cording to their height, weight, anc ge, with squad ing activities such as football pass for accuracy, football punt for dis- tance, basketball goal throw, tennis serve, chin up, broad jump, high jump, shot put are used. All of these events can be meagured and progress noted from time 6 time. Games are being learned that can be played in later life, such as tennis, volley ball, baseball, hand ball. Golf fg encouraged. Once a week each student 1s required to take a showef bath. . We have sixteen basketball teams in the regular gymnasium periods, eight class basketball teams, and the regular first and second teams. We feel that giving every boy and girl a chance to participate in some form of athletics is better than just specia- lzing on one group, the first team. In the past year our track team won first place In the state and our football team second place. Grade and High School Libraries. Natrona County high school has a book laboratory which {s just as complete in {ts equipment as the chemistry or physics laboratory is in {ts line. Adhering to the single text book method {s a thing of the past and our high school pupils are consult- lim the preparation of their assign- | ments. In order that these books jand pertodicals may b* available ore quickly, a trained person is In charge to those pup! s who are uring lessons, debates, speeches uu) subjects which arise in 1, activities. The very best reference books, en- cyclopedias and dictionaries are at hand. A collection of over thirty leading periodicals keeps our printed material up to date. Our books | nur to ring about three thousand. \ regular course in Mbrary in- struction is being given to the Fresh- |men by the Hbrarfan. This course lis embodied in the new course of |study f Inglish and consists of struction in the proper care of books, use of indexes, encyclopedias card catalog and an opportunity to become acquainted with the books hemselves | A lst of books for home reading with school credit has been mada out I the lbrarian. This lst consists of travel, ess: drama, bfogtaphy, poetry, myth, novel and science. Each pupil {s allowed to go to the shelves and choose his own book in these subjects . Casper is one of the few citles to have its own school Mbrary system. High school and grade libraries in most large cities are sent out and supervised by the public Mbrary. Each grade building in Casper and each rural school, Including those in the ofl fields which are in our dis- trict, bas a library for the use of the teachers and pupils. Some of these collections have more than two hun. dred books consisting of encyclo | pedias, dictionaries and other refer | enc material tor supplementary work. This year we are beginning to make the grade brary more acces- sible. Several bulldings are prepar- ing separate rooms for their collec- tion where all pupils will be sent to do reference work. A home reading course stmilar to that of the high school has been madée for the pupils from the fourth to the elghth grade. Home Economics, Home Economics has made mors progress in its short history than perhaps any branch taught in the public school. It has progressed from the showy, elabo: tical “cooking” and “sewing” to real “homemaking,” which involves budgeting, child care and feeding, home management, personal hy- giene, etc., besides sewing and cools- ing. These additional subjects have been incorporated into the Home Economics course here to make it =. practical, well-rounded training for home making. Home Economics tn Casper begina in the seventh grade where sewing is taught once a week for ninety minutes. Hand sewing, fundamental stitches, use and care of sewing ma- chine and simple garment making are taught here. Their garments tn- clude simple underwear for them- selves, and apron and equipment for elghth grade cooking the next year. Cooking in the elghth grade takes up preparation of dishes which may be combined {nto simple meals with (Continved on Page Hleven) General Machine and Blacksmith Work LIDDERDALE TOOL CO. ELMER E. LIDDERDALE, General Manager STEAM HAMMER JOBS ‘We Are So Equipped As to Give Prompt and Guaranteed Service On ALL OIL COUNTRY WORK With our 30-inchx34-foot, 10-inch hollow spindle lathe we eliminate the cutting and rewelding of most auger and spiral stem jobs and with this lathe we re-machine your worn spirals for smaller holes. LIDDERDALE TOOL Co. — 1245 East C Street Repairing of Steam Engines Gas Engines and Pumps LATHE, SHAPER, DRILL PRESS AND Phone 766 aad the teachers of English and \~